In Martin Boulton's unofficial list of notable sports superstitions, he decided to offer up the antics of a baseball player from another hemisphere as a perfect example:

APWin or lose, Turk Wendell always kept your attention during his time with the Mets.BASEBALL players more than any other sport are renowned for their wacky
superstitions, but Turk Wendell has to take the cake when it comes to
unusual behaviour. The New York Mets reliever, who wore No. 99 and once
asked his employers to make his contract $9,999,999.99, always jumped
over the baselines on his way to the mound, chewed black licorice while
pitching, and (perhaps understandably with the licorice thing) brushed
his teeth between innings. In three-and-a-half seasons with the Mets,
the fun-loving, outspoken fans' favourite also developed a habit of
wearing a necklace decorated with the claws and teeth of animals he had
hunted and killed. Some of Wendell's less ostentatious on-field habits
included drawing three crosses in the dirt of the pitcher's mound,
insisting the umpire roll the ball to the mound instead of throwing it
to him and waving at the centre fielder at the start of a new inning.
If that wasn't enough, he waited until the centre fielder waved back
before proceeding to pitch.

Lost in the long summary of Wendell's eccentricites, we often forget that Wendell pitched effectively for the Mets. During his 1997-2001 tenure in Flushing, Wendell hurled three of his four best seasons as a reliever. Conveniently, those three years matched the three full seasons he pitched for the Mets and the three seasons he led all full-time relievers in innings pitched: